Havelock Ellis quotes

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Man lives by imagination.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.